Meet Maureen Tabor, MSW, LCSW-C
Trauma Therapist
Maureen Tabor, LCSW-C is a trauma and attachment focused therapist who specializes in empowerment, boundaries and self compassion.
About Maureen (She/Her)
Do you ever feel like this adulting thing is a lot harder than you expected? For many of my clients, this comes up a lot when dealing with parenting. I have been there, and understand how hard it can be! Especially for those of us who grew up believing that we “should” be “good girls.”
The whole “be nice,” “put others first” thing gets tiring when you’re juggling work - inside or outside the home - trying to parent differently from the way your parents did it, trying to make it in your career, hustling to keep up with everything and feeling like you’re failing everywhere you turn. It’s even worse if you hold yourself to super high standards - add in perimenopause and it’s a recipe for feeling exhausted and burned out!
If you’re feeling like you’ll never catch up, wondering why you can’t “get it right,” I’d love to help! I specialize in helping high performing adults struggling with people pleasing and perfectionism. I use a mindfulness based, somatic parts work approach focused on developing self compassion, meeting unmet attachment needs and healing the wounded inner child.
Another specialty of mine is supporting caregivers (parents/adult children) who set their needs aside to support a loved one. The weight of caregiving can be heavy at times, and brings up a lot of mixed feelings including fatigue and exhaustion, tension, frustration, guilt, resentment, worry and more.
Caregivers often deny their own needs because someone else needs more. Sometimes life requires us to do this, but when it goes on for a while we can become depleted. This can turn into a habit of neglecting ourselves and can have negative impacts on our relationships to self and others.
If you have a tough inner critic; struggle to love yourself; think you have to be perfect to earn love and belonging, let’s talk!
I use a holistic, client-centered, strengths-based, warm and compassionate approach. I practice with a Psychodynamic therapy approach focused on increasing Self Compassion and healing the wounded parts of ourselves which haven’t been safe to be expressed. I also use CBT, Mindfulness, parts work based in Internal Family Systems (IFS), Motivational Interviewing (MI), and my perspective is based in a somatic trauma and attachment lens and Polyvagal Theory. I’m available Tuesdays in person.
Maureen earned her BSW from Salisbury University in 2003 and her Master of Social Work from University of Maryland in 2004. She has worked with children, adolescents, adults and families in the community, agencies and private practice.
Maureen is currently accepting new adult clients for in person sessions.